Bill Text: FL S0500 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Equal Rights for Men and Women

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2021-04-30 - Died in Judiciary [S0500 Detail]

Download: Florida-2021-S0500-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2021                                    SCR 500
       
       
        
       By Senator Gibson
       
       
       
       
       
       6-00515A-21                                            2021500__
    1                    Senate Concurrent Resolution                   
    2         A concurrent resolution ratifying the proposed
    3         amendment to the Constitution of the United States
    4         relating to equal rights for men and women.
    5  
    6         WHEREAS, during the Second Session of the 92nd Congress of
    7  the United States of America, by a constitutional majority of
    8  two-thirds, both houses approved the Equal Rights Amendment, and
    9         WHEREAS, on March 22, 1972, this proposed amendment to the
   10  Constitution of the United States was sent to the states for
   11  ratification, and
   12         WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution
   13  authorizes the Legislature of Florida to ratify proposed
   14  amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and
   15         WHEREAS, the provisions of the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment
   16  contained a 7-year period for ratification, a deadline the
   17  United States Congress later extended to 1982 after 35 states
   18  had ratified the amendment, and
   19         WHEREAS, on February 13, 2020, the United States House of
   20  Representatives passed House Joint Resolution 79 to
   21  retroactively eliminate the ratification deadline from the
   22  amendment, and similar measures have been introduced in the
   23  United States Senate, and
   24         WHEREAS, constitutional equality for men and women
   25  continues to be timely in the United States and worldwide, and
   26  many other nations have achieved constitutional equality for men
   27  and women, NOW, THEREFORE,
   28  
   29  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida, the House
   30  of Representatives Concurring:
   31  
   32         That the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the
   33  United States set forth below is ratified by the Legislature of
   34  the State of Florida.
   35                            “ARTICLE ____                          
   36         “SECTION 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be
   37  denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
   38  account of sex.
   39         “SECTION 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce,
   40  by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
   41         “SECTION 3. This amendment shall take effect two years
   42  after the date of ratification.”
   43         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of the
   44  foregoing preamble and resolution be immediately forwarded by
   45  the Secretary of State of the State of Florida, under the Great
   46  Seal of this state, to the President of the United States, the
   47  Secretary of State of the United States, the President of the
   48  Senate of the United States, the Speaker of the House of
   49  Representatives of the United States, and the Administrator of
   50  the General Services Administration of the United States.